s-Jet® 25 Laboratory-Scale-Steam Jet Mill

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The new s-Jet® 25 is a small and compact laboratory unit and the logical complement to the proven new stem jet mill s-Jet® series.

With this new development, it is now possible to manufacture nano-particles on a laboratory-scale with dry-grinding.

This System is a combination of spiral jet mill and integrated dynamic air classifier. High finenesses can be obtained with this mill, independent of the load in the air jets. During the development of this plant great care was taken to create a system especially suitable for manufacture of very small amounts and product sample.

The compactly constructed lab-plant includes all necessary components such as dosing, mill, product separation, control unit, fittings and steam generator on a skid. The space required for the assembly of the complete steam grinding plant is only 3 m2, while the maximum necessary height is 2450 mm. All product-contacted parts as well as the assembly frame made of stainless steel. The plant is delivered completely mounted and ready-for-operation. Central connection points for compresses air and electricity, water inlet and-outlet ensure very short installation- and commissioning times. Further requirements were an ergonomic design and easy cleaning, as well as condensation of the waste steam vapors produced during this process. This allows a flexible assembly of the system.

An integrated dynamic air classifier in the housing can be infinitely adjusted to the desired fineness. This guarantees exact adjustment of the grinding parameters and reproducible product quality.

Even the hardest of products poses no problem for this steam mill. In addition, moist products can be ground and dried simultaneously using superheated steam without any additional pre-drying process for inlet.

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The new s-Jet® System is a consequent further development of the air-jet mill based on the Fluidized Bed Jet Mill CGS. Using steam instead of air, a considerably higher jet energy is made available whereby higher capacities and new ranges of fineness (submicron) can be achieved in the area of dry grinding.

NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH offers mixing, kneading and dispersing machines for low- to high-viscosity products as well as a variety of wet-grinding units for reduction into the nanometer range, tailor-made for each application. When it comes to the processing of dry products by cutting, fine grinding or fine classification, you will find a wealth of experience and an equally varied program of fine-impact mills, classifier and jet mills as well as fine-cutting mills and high-performance fine classifiers.

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From the generation of adiabatic energy through to the breakthrough in nano range particles, a joint development in economical jet milling of industrial minerals and dry grinding in the sub-micron range is described by Dr. Roland Nied.

A new method of grinding for jet mills that allows finenesses in the submicron range to be obtained was described in the April 2010 issue of cpp in an article headed “Economical using steam”. Such finenesses had until then been unattainable with dry grinding. This established process, known as the s-Jet® system, is meanwhile operating successfully in numerous applications.

Micronization is the miniaturization of particles by jet milling with compressed air or other gas to a range of 2-200 microns (µm). For most dry grinding processes, 2 µm is the practical limit of the technology...

The interest in finer, dry products has led to the development of more efficient jet milling processes. The first part of the paper describes the thermodynamic basic principles for generation and application of steam, and compressed gases. Practical experience has shown that in the aspired fineness range stabilization during grinding provides an enormous potential for improvement. Some selected examples demonstrate that the energy requirement can be reduced by a factor of more than two by suitable choice of stabilizers.

Micronization is the miniaturization of particles by jet milling with compressed air or other gas to a range of 2-200 microns (µm). For most dry grinding processes, 2 µm is the practical limit of the technology. Nanonization is the miniaturization of particles by jet milling with superheated steam. By using superheated steam as the grinding gas, a fluidized bed jet mill with this revolutionary technology, can produce dry powders with median particle sizes in the range of 130 nanometers (nm) with 100% of the distribution finer than 400 nm. This patented new technology, known as s-Jet®, represents a quantum leap in particle size reduction by a dry grinding process and improves the jet milling process 10-fold. s-Jet® uses steam to produce superfine particles; therefore the new term – Nanonization!